Ax-head.



No. 766,944. PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904.

' W. HATCHER.

AX HEAD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR, 24, 1904.

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wwnwm L UNITED STATES Patented August 9, 1904.

WILEY I-IATCHER, OF RULEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.

AX-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part 01: Letters Patent No. 766,944, dated Aug 9, 1904:.

Application filed March 24, 1904.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LWILEY HATorIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ruleville, in the county of Sunflower and State of Mississippi, have invented new and useful Iniprovements in Ax-Heads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ax-heads; and it consists in certain novel features of construction hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof. Fig. 3 is an end view.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the ax-head is indicated at 5 and has an eye 6, as usual, to receive the handle 7. The head has two blades 8, the cutting edges 9 of which are straight and extend in opposite directions at an angle to the handle, so that the head is wider-at its inner end than the outer end thereof. The advantage of this is that a piece of timber can be hewn on the ground without the operator stooping or bending the body, and a straight handle can be used. Both ends of the head are cut away, as at 10, to reduce its weight.

Referring particularly to Fig. 3, it will be seen that each blade on one side is flat or straight, as at 11, while the other side is beveled or rounded, as at 12, whereby the cutting edges are formed. The flat sides of the blades extend in parallelism on opposite sides of the eye, their respective ends being joined by the Serial No. 199,727. (Nomodeld.

beveled sides. The blades are thus offset from the eye on opposite sides thereof and their cutting edges lie in a diagonal plane. By this construction either cutting edge can be used, as the straight sides of the blades will be on the same side always. In the drawings I have shown an ax in which the fiat sides of the blades are always on the right; but it is to be understood that for the use of a left-handed man the arrangement of the sides as described above will be reversed. 7

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. An ax-head having blades which are oil'- set from, and extend in opposite directions on opposite sides of the eye.

2. An ax-head having blades each ofwhich is flat on one side, and beveled on the other side, the flat sides extending in parallelism in difler ent planes on opposite sides of the eye.

3. An ax-head having blades which are olfset from the eye on opposite sides thereof, and whose cutting edges extend in opposite directions at an angle to the handle, whereby the inner end of the head is wider than the outer end thereof.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILEY I-IATCHER.

Witnesses:

C. H. TEASDALE, L. K. BOYNTON. 

